bemused

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Meloni herself left a bemused comment on Instagram next to her supposed likeness, saying: "No, decidedly I do not resemble an angel."

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

Mr. Swift’s bemused account of the Burbage-Brayne partnership is one of several aspects of the book that erase the distance between 16th-century Shoreditch and 21st-century Broadway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Body-cam footage released by the Parma Heights Police Department shows one bemused officer describing how the gourd just “took off” as he tried to grab it.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025

But, speaking just after the game, his manager Arne Slot was left bemused by the incident.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025

In ones and twos the does, utterly bemused and scarcely able to move or to understand what was said to them, were urged into getting up and stumbling their way down the field.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams